Cheryl Springer

The combined opposition parties this afternoon walked out of the National Assembly as Education Minister Priya Manickchand got up to make her presentation but she rallied on with her speech to loud support from her government colleagues.

(Reuters) – Actor Mickey Rooney, who became the United States’ biggest movie star while a brash teenager in the 1930s and later a versatile character actor in a career that spanned 10 decades, died on Sunday of natural causes, Los Angeles authorities said.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh today presented a $220 billion budget which will see an attempt to spend down what ails Guyana’s sugar industry, with $6 billion earmarked for that subsector. 

Having recently met representatives of the local private sector and policy makers here, Jamaican economist Dr Christopher Tufton says he is mulling proposals for foreign investors in sugar, rice and finance among other areas.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, was found dead in her New York apartment on Monday from an apparent suicide, according to a law enforcement official.